Title page of the 1787 Academy catalogue

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Archive context

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Reference code

AND/6/170

Title

Title page of the 1787 Academy catalogue

Date

1787

Level

Item

Extent & medium

1 piece

Content Description

Pasted to the face is a newspaper cutting about Sir Joshua Reynolds commencing a portrait of Lord Heathfield.

On the reverse is part of a critique of the 1787 Academy exhibition, source unstated, with an annotation on the review of Mrs Damer's "what trash of puffery". Other artists noted are [Benjamin] West, [Paul] Sandby and William Hodges.